Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Potsdam recognized the new Lebensraum. Yalta had given a large slice of Poland (see map) to U.S.S.R.; Potsdam made the Germans foot the bill. What Poland lost to the Russians was about half again as large in area as what she got from the Germans. But the new Polish territory ripped from Germany, stretching to within 35 miles of Berlin, included coal and iron in German Silesia, the transportation centers of Breslau and Küstrin and some 200 miles of Baltic seacoast, with the great port of Danzig and Berlin's seaport, Stettin. In industrial value, at least...
...with measured daring and high hopes, Halsey turned south (see map) with the greatest naval force ever assembled to jab at the enemy's heart. On the way his massive force was magnified. He was joined by the British Pacific Fleet (operating in strength equivalent to a U.S. task group, with probably four carriers, two or more battleships and a dozen to a score of cruisers and destroyers). Its commander: fair-haired, grey-eyed Vice Admiral Sir Henry Bernard Rawlings...
...greater part of the land fighting in the Pacific last week was being done by the Australians. Mostly they inched forward in bitter, forgotten little battles against a scattered but formidable array of Japs (best conservative guesstimate: 136,000-see map) bypassed in the westward sweep of the main battle. But the Aussies were punching ahead on new battlegrounds...
...Rectification of Turkey's Asia Minor frontier. This meant the cession of the Kars region (with the town of Ardahan) to Russia. The Kars area (see map), was wrested from Turkey by the Tsars in the 19th Century, given back by the Bolsheviks in 1921, when Allied forces were in control of Kars...
...Elizabethan freebooter, a financial tycoon, and a humorless, aoth-Century dictator. "I contend," he said, "that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race." He would lay his big hand on a map of Africa, printed with the colors of many nations, and cry: "I want to see it all red, all red!" He envisioned an Anglo-North American empire that would rule the world: the now famed Rhodes Scholarships were established by him in the hope of training leaders...